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71 Dead In Caribbean; New Orleans Considers Evacuation As Potential Cat. 3 Hurricane Looms
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- have a good labor day all and all you folks in the hurricanes path and fringes, be safe.I would offer a room to rent but I live in the upper northeast and your thin blood wouldn''t be able to stand the winters.Watch out for your neighbors,the elderly and infirm. Good luck
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- Let me guess,you worked in either the trama unit or ER
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- I just hope that Gustav decides to disintegrate in the open waters instead of causing more harm. God knows best...leave it to him and just say a prayer.
Posted by crescentgirl at 09:38 AM : Aug 29, 2008
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Wouldn''t place too much hopr in Gustav disengrating, the gulf waters are warm and this feeds the storm.
I grew up in SE Tx. One of my earliest memories was sitting on my front porch with my dad watching the wind and rain as hurricane Audrey blew limbs, shingles, boards, etc around. I love being in these storms and watching their sheer natural power, I can get very excited with them. I worked in a hospital years ago and when they needed nurses to come in to work during a storm I would volunteer to get them if they could find them. It was a fun drive. - Reply to this comment
- The thing will probably slam into Mexico. The media loves to hype these things up. Scientists don''t even know where hurricanes will go.
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- HEY NEW ORLEANS
This is heading your way. Lets see if we have learned anything! - Reply to this comment
- It is ironic that it is the anniversary of Katrina,but this is prime hurricane season,so the odds are pretty good that for years to come the Katrina anniversary will be the headlines for many other storms.Good luck everyone. Snow,hurricanes,snow? hurricanes? hmmm I''ll take the snow thank you.
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- I think it''s kind of eerie that the 3 yr anniv of Katrina is comming and a hurricane is once again barreling down Louisiana''s path. Pretty eerie indeed. It looks like N.O. just can''t get a break. N.O. you are in my prayers. I just hope that Gustav decides to disintegrate in the open waters instead of causing more harm. God knows best...leave it to him and just say a prayer.
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- I look forward to the rain.
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- It''s stuff like this that makes life interesting. I grew up in NJ and now live in Florida and I look forward to these storms. They are a wake up call.
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- Where''s Nagin? Haven''t heard anything from him?
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- Evacuation plans still need to improve. Days and days of gridlocked traffic wastes time, fuel and safety.
But, if one lives in a hurricane-prone area, either you leave or suffer the consequences until help can safely arrive. - Reply to this comment
- shanev137 at 09:09 PM : Aug 28, 2008
Like I said.........perfect "0" - Reply to this comment
- Like I said, you''d think most people would have learned something after Katrina.....obviously not.
By the way.....snow storms and rain storms don''t flatten your house to the ground.
Check out this graph, if you''re smart enough to cut and paste a link.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/img/reports/billion/billion2007.pdf
The U.S. has sustained 78 weather related disasters over the last 28 years with overall damages/costs exceeding $1.0 billion for each event. 66 of the disasters occurred during or after 1990. Total costs for the 78 events were $600 billion using a GNP inflation index......half of that was hurricane related. - Reply to this comment
- I''ve lived in Louisiana all my life and have seen Andrew and many other storms destoy property. My mom still remembers Camile and Betsy. It''s a way of life along the gulf. Everyone living this close should know that you GET OUT when they come and pick up the pieces when once their gone. I am sorry to say that the only reason Katrina got the response it did was because it hit THERE. Noone remembers the towns swept of the map from the storm one year later because it wasn''t New Orleans. Those people have started rebuilding and even though you can still find library books caught in bushes a mile from where the library once stood you won''t hear anything about it. That''s a shame! Will people care if this one misses New Orleans or will they just say oh it was just another hurricane?
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- And how about snow and ice storms in the mid-west and in the north???? Some times there is no power for days and days when something like this happens.
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- O
Posted by haoli25 at 07:59 PM : Aug 28, 2008
Great POST..........:-) - Reply to this comment
- shanev137 at 06:54 PM : Aug 28, 2008
A perfect "0" tell the tale on writing like this...... - Reply to this comment
- You''''re obviously another really dumb person who needs to get out more and start looking at natural disaster deaths and property damage statistics by region in the US.
Posted by shanev137
And where do you expect the 19 million in Florida to move? That''s not counting the millions along the other coasts. Maybe we can stick them in tornado alley. Or out west with the fires and earthquakes. Maybe some day you''ll be realistic. - Reply to this comment
- There is not many places in the world that you can''''t get hurt or killed by some kind of natural disaster.
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You''re obviously another really dumb person who needs to get out more and start looking at natural disaster deaths and property damage statistics by region in the US.
Why do you think it''s almost impossible to buy homeowners insurance in the gulf states and lower Atlantic seaboard states?
Like I said, I''m sorry you can''t figure it out yet. - Reply to this comment
